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NEA Big Read Closing Ceremony

Presented by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County at Silver Spring Library, Silver Spring MD

Jun 09, 2018

NEA Big Read Closing Ceremony

Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, will be the keynote speaker at the NEA Big Read Closing Ceremony.

Dinaw Mengestu will be the keynote speaker at the NEA Big Read Closing Ceremony. Mengestu is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for Rolling Stone, Harper’sThe Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. He is the Program Director of Written Arts at Bard College. In 2007 the National Book Foundation named him a “5 under 35” honoree, and he was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2012.

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Free Admission

Phone: 240-777-0020

Email: staff@folmc.org

Website: https://www.folmc.org/big-read/

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Silver Spring Library

900 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910

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